Per a chyron flashing on MSNBC in its currently uninterrupted Unity coverage: “COLOR COORDINATION: OBAMA’S TIE MATCHES CLINTON’S SUIT” The color in question, by the way, is light blue. As in, the color of water (under the bridge). As in, the sky (is the limit). As in, as MSNBC commentators went out of their way […]

Can’t you just feel the excitement in the air? Can’t you just feel the Winds of Change starting to blow? Can’t you just feel the love? That’s right, kids…it’s UNITY DAY! Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, hot on the heels of their “nono, we’re cool now” joint event in Washington last night, will be conducting […]

On MSNBC a few moments ago, Monica Novotny announced Barack Obama’s participation today in an economic summit at Carnegie Mellon University. Wow, what a great opportunity for the network to report on substance rather than horserace-y silliness! What a great opportunity for us to learn, with more detail and nuance, about the presumptive Democratic nominee’s […]

…and why they’re more than idle chatter

David Brooks has an important column in today’s New York Times. Important, in the sense that it establishes a meme that will likely cling, like small-town Americans to guns and religion, to Barack Obama; and important in the sense that it will likely have traction in the campaign-trail discourse between now and November. That meme […]

or, We’ll Become Silhouettes

On Friday, apparently, a week from today, the waters will part, the heavens will stir, and the light of Democratic Party Unity will shine down from above. That’s right: Obama and Clinton will make their first public appearance together. Cue the choirs. Or something. We’re already looking forward to the detailed body-language analyses, the deep […]

On today’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, Willie Geist ran, as he normally does, a segment called “News You Can’t Use”: a lighthearted, sometimes-snarky look at a smattering of the silly-but-entertaining news stories of the day. This morning’s segment was at once especially memorable and especially can’t-usable: it involved fifty-two-year-old Macrida Patterson, an L.A.-based Department of […]